Trump Says He Knows The REAL Reason Harriet Tubman Is Coming To The $20

Donald Trump said Thursday that Underground Railroad abolitionist legend Harriet Tubman is “fantastic” but shoving Andrew Jackson aside to put Tubman’s face on the front of the $20 bill was “pure political correctness.”

“Andrew Jackson had a great history. I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” Trump told NBC’s Today. “Andrew Jackson had a history of tremendous success for the country.”

“I think Harriet Tubman is fantastic. I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can come up with another denomination. Maybe we do the $2 bill or another bill. I don’t like seeing it,” Trump said.

“Yes, I think it’s pure political correctness (to replace Jackson). Been on the bill for many, many years and really represented — somebody that was really very important to this country. I would love to see another denomination, and that could take place. I think it would be more appropriate.”

Jackson, who served as the country’s seventh president, was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 and one of the first American presidents to reach the White House as a populist.

Jackson, who also was a slave owner, zealously forced Native Americans off their land during his tenure as president, leading to the infamous Cherokee “Trail of Tears.”

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Tubman, a former slave, was a leader of the Underground Railroad, a network of trails and safe houses by which slaves fled the Southern states to reach the North in the years before the Civil War.

Under the currency redesign unveiled Wednesday, Jackson’s face will move to the back of the $20 bill when the new notes are officially unveiled in 2020.